it's simply matted with white matboard...the blue secondary mat is just colored copy paper...the frame is one i had sitting around in a closet (does that mean i'm a closet packrat?):
on to exhibit 'b'!
three years ago (i think it was that long ago), i got a christmas gift from another blogger...inside the package were several slips of paper with 'merry christmas' typed in all sorts of different languages used for packing filler...i thought they were neat so guess what...I KEPT THEM...are you shocked? then last year i decided to modpodge them onto a canvas...the canvas was one that i'd painted at a class i took at michaels and i didn't like it...so it sat and sat and sat (in a closet no less)...i painted it green, modpodged the phrases on it, added a coat of glitter paint and got a neat piece of christmas art that reminds me of a dear friend:
three years ago (i think it was that long ago), i got a christmas gift from another blogger...inside the package were several slips of paper with 'merry christmas' typed in all sorts of different languages used for packing filler...i thought they were neat so guess what...I KEPT THEM...are you shocked? then last year i decided to modpodge them onto a canvas...the canvas was one that i'd painted at a class i took at michaels and i didn't like it...so it sat and sat and sat (in a closet no less)...i painted it green, modpodged the phrases on it, added a coat of glitter paint and got a neat piece of christmas art that reminds me of a dear friend:
now for exhibit 'c' i present:
yards of a very nice shade of gold satin ribbon that i salvaged from a gift basket that came to our office just last week (see, this is 'fresh'...not procrastinated...)
there was a lot of this ribbon...but it was stamped with the candy company logo all.over.it...i briefly considered throwing it away as i would never put it on a package to give to someone...but it was so lovely...i was torn...that's what happens to packratters...they get torn when faced with the prospects of throwing something perfectly useful in the trash!
so i got to thinking maybe there was a way to get the wording off the ribbon...i scratched at it with my fingernail:
so i got to thinking maybe there was a way to get the wording off the ribbon...i scratched at it with my fingernail:
i put all of it in one of those mesh laundry bag for delicates and ran it thru every load of laundry all weekend (about 5 loads)...hung it up to dry...ironed it..AND:
now go get your inner packrat on!
~k
5 comments:
I think all crafters are packrats! You just "never know" when you'll need that special thing!
Wow, every thing you did looks great...and that gold ribbon looks wonderful after all those washings!
wow, that's awesome that you were able to recycle that ribbon. I would have never thought about doing that.
I just love the snowcat card. I found a box of those several years ago and used them for Christmas cards. I just LOVE that print.
how thrifty of you!
that is AWESOME about the ribbon!
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